Tag Archives: Syria

The mini-summit of the three countries that earlier this year helped broker a truce between Syrian government troops and the opposition in several pockets of fighting across the war-torn country comes two days after Syrian President Bashar al-Assad visited Putin in Sochi. CBC | World News

ISRAEL has fired a ‘warning shot’ at Syrian forces for violating a ceasefire agreement, a source from the country’s defence forces has claimed. Daily Express :: News Feed

At least five children and two rescue workers were killed Friday in a Damascus suburb during a government bombing campaign amid escalating violence in and around the capital despite a truce, activists reported. CBC | World News

Syria’s government is promoting what it bills as a beautiful future for Damascus, but critics see it as a future engineered to force out dissent, paid for by wealthy foreign allies and contracted out to regime-friendly businesses. CBC | World News

Syrian troops ousted Islamic State extremists Friday from Deir el-Zour, a major city in eastern Syria, while Iraqi forces retook Qaim, the group’s last big town across the border in Iraq, in simultaneous assaults that dealt further territorial losses to the retreating militants. CBC | World News

US-LED coalition forces have found ISIS chemical weapons in both Iraq and Syria, a military spokesman has revealed. Daily Express :: News Feed

Russia has been at war in Syria since September 2015, supporting President Bashar al-Assad. Ever since, its military has been bringing reporters from Moscow to showcase what it says are the positive aspects of Russia’s involvement in Syria’s six-year civil war. CBC | World News

Russia’s military fired seven cruise missiles Thursday at Islamic State targets in the eastern Syrian province of Deir el-Zour as pro-government forces closed in on the militants holed up in the eponymous capital. CBC | World News

Last Thursday, massive explosions rocked the Syrian town of Masyaf as precision guided missiles hit their targets. According to The Washington Post, this was in fact an incursion by Israeli fighter jets against a site that had been producing chemical weapons and missiles for the Syrian government and its allies. Damascus has already declared that there will be “dangerous repercussions”. ...

Two bomb blasts claimed by ISIS hit the northeastern Syrian city of Qamishli near the Turkish border on Wednesday, killing at least 44 people and injuring 170 others, state television reported. CBC | World News